SID-01255: Adding a drop down for users of the main web to see

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.2	Perl version:
Category:	TopMenuSkin	Server OS:	VM	Last update:	14 years ago

Hello,

I read the documentation and tried for a few hours to understand, but I just want to add a drop down to the existing Main Web Top bar called Links.

Under links I would place external and internal links to files and websites.

Now the best I can get is to copy and paste portions of the existing drop downs.

Is there other documentation or guidance I may receive.

Thanks Dennis

-- DennisMoore - 2011-08-21

Discussion and Answer

Hi Dennis,

every Web has a WebTopMenu topic where the TopMenu is defined. Just have a look at the tml code of one of the WebTopMenu topics at twiki.org like: Plugins WebTopMenu code. There you can see the construction (TWiki list with links). A new Dropdown gets a 3 Whitespaces + * + Name and every entry of the Dropdown gets 3 more whitespaces before the * .

This might be easier to understand and edit with knowledge about the raw tml (TWiki meta language), which is nicely documented (see TextFormattingRules).

Hope that can help you,

-- CarlaReitzenstein - 2011-09-09

Carla,

Your post inspired me to go back and look more. I was overthinking the complexity. The way it sems is A new group dropdown is defined by:

• %ICON{group}%Ship<img src='%PUBURL%/%SYSTEMWEB%/TopMenuSkin/menu-dropdown.gif' alt='' width='14' height='16' />

Items under it are:

• • <a target="_blank" href=http://www.fedex.com/us/>FedEx Tracking </a>
  • <a target="_blank" href=http://sfed0100/>FedEx Shipping</a>
  • <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ups.com/WebTracking/track?loc-en_US">UPS</a>
  • <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usps.com/shipping/trackandconfirm.htm?from=home_header&page=trackandconfirm">USPS</a>

I just copied and pasted existing and realize from there it follows editing rules for images and such.

Thanks and kind regards, Dennis

-- DennisMoore - 2011-09-11

Carla,

Your post inspired me to go back and look more. I was overthinking the complexity. The way it sems is A new group dropdown is defined by:

• %ICON{group}%Ship<img src='%PUBURL%/%SYSTEMWEB%/TopMenuSkin/menu-dropdown.gif' alt='' width='14' height='16' />

Items under it are:

• • <a target="_blank" href=http://www.fedex.com/us/>FedEx Tracking </a>
  • <a target="_blank" href=http://sfed0100/>FedEx Shipping</a>
  • <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ups.com/WebTracking/track?loc-en_US">UPS</a>
  • <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usps.com/shipping/trackandconfirm.htm?from=home_header&page=trackandconfirm">USPS</a>

I just copied and pasted existing and realize from there it follows editing rules for images and such.

Thanks and kind regards, Dennis

-- DennisMoore - 2011-09-11

Sounds good! And thanks for the feedback.

-- CarlaReitzenstein - 2011-09-14

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